Cool Places

There are lots of cool places with fossils. I have been to some, and I want to go to lots more, so I'm putting them here so I don't forget. Maybe you want to visit them, too!

Centre for Life, Newcastle

We went there last week-end (edit from Mum: September 2013), and it was really cool. There is lots about exploring the world, and evolution. There was something called a dinosaur exhibit, but it wasn't all about dinosaurs, it was about all kinds of fossils. There was a really small ichthyosaur, too, and really good games were you could do a dig, or x-ray a fish, so it was like you were doing proper research. We are definitely going back!

Weston Park Museum

Weston Park Museum is in Sheffield, and they have lots of fossils - they show what Sheffield looked like 310 million years ago - it was a swamp. They have a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur, and lots about archaeology, like things that they found in Sheffield. There are lots of doors and flaps to open. I really, really liked it! (Edit by Mummy: read about our visit here.)

Yorkshire Museum

The Yorkshire Museum is in York, and we went there because they have a whole ichthyosaur!! It is a special one, because it is a "type specimen", that means if anybody finds an ichthyosaur, they check this one to see if it is like this one, and then they know what kind of ichthyosaur it is. It's huge! My head would fit where the eye is! They have lots of other fossils, too, and games, and I really liked the Roman exhibition, too!